
          Then the low, minute forms, & Conferva come and,
 Gory Dew, Red Snow, superbly illustrated, ending 
 with Diatomas [Diatomae], transitions to Corallines through 
 Sponge &., & the locomotive spores of 
 Conferva Zoosporeae. 


 Lect. [Lecture] 10. Whole subject of spontaneous movements 
 [added: & sensibility] in Flowering plants, the life [of] plants, 
 &c. (treated in a somewhat original way), and 
 the real differences between plants & animals. 


 Lect. [Lecture] 11. The principles of Classification
 Individuals, Species, their permanence, 
 Genera, Orders, &c. 


 Lect. [Lecture] 12. Historical development. The 
 Linnaean system, the Natural. This ends so 
 as to give me a fine place to begin at next year. 


 I sent on Monday to Wiley & Putnam, 
 a parcel (sealed) for you, containing my first 
 lecture, as your desired. Some of it is mere heads to 
 refer me to the diagrams. Please take care of 
 it, and send it safely back to me. [Added: I have marked it "To be called or sent for."] The "Vestiges" is 
 full as possible of absurd and wrong statements of facts,
 which the author did not clearly understand. Bowen
 has a long winded article on it for the next North 
 American. This will keep me from touching it there.

        